Invention in Early Glassblowing - The Road to Ennion with Bill Gudenrath | Behind the Glass Lecture

[@aturbo9273]

His flow in the shop is impeccable !! Great lecture .

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Thanks for watching!

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[@brianmcmanus4286]

So excited to have found this. Cheers!

[@TupolevSlava]

The best lecture on glass blowing I've ever attended. Thank you so much. Subscribed now

[@patrickjaroch5084]

So glad i found this. Mr. Gudenrath is a very gifted teacher. as well as a sublimely gifted artist in his own right. what an amazing asset for the museum. i would love to make the trip to new york to take a class

[@Ethy787]

Always great to listen to Bill =)

[@metalouie]

Didn't expect to watch it all way through... 😎👌

[@jonathanswain5621]

This is quite spectacular

[@xfire301]

Bill is the Greatest.

[@tjmulligan3086]

watching the glass being made into objects is fascinating!

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Thanks for watching!

[@justinjwitt]

he makes it looks so easy its so amazing.

[@vada7259]

As entertaining as it is educational - Thanks!

[@jennifervanocker8934]

Wonderful lecture, thank you for sharing this

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Thanks for watching!

[@DylanBrams]

In the Q&A Bill mentions comparing the vases when they're in the same room. Did he do this and conclude they came from the same mold? Question 2: Has 3-d scanning of ancient glass objects for comparison been considered?

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Hi Dylan, Bill Gudenrath and Karol Wight both had the opportunity to compare the vases in the same room and came to that conclusion. According to Kate Larson, our assistant curator of ancient and Islamic glass, 3D scanning of ancient glass is being done by some researchers for exactly this reason - to compare objects that can’t feasibly be examined side-by-side. But 3D scanning and modeling requires a good amount of time and computer power, so its application is still on a quite limited scale. It is best applied toward particular types of research questions for which a model might be useful. Thanks for watching!

[@DylanBrams]

I was thinking about the second question more in terms of the Portland Vase blown / pate de verre debate. Thanks for the quick reply, have a good one.

[@SPQRIUS]

where can I find a demonstration of the raw materials used?

[@charlieharper4975]

Like any great artist he makes it look so smooth, casual and easy. Yet, like a high wire walker, one mistake would be fatal.

[@GemPassionpl]

1:00:41 lined with... sute? Suite? whats the pronunciation ? Thanks for help

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Hi, Bill said soot. It's pronounced "so͝ot." Thanks for watching!

[@MrChaosRegins]

It will be interesting to see if those 2 came from the same mold also i would like to know if they had been found in close proximity to eachother if they did come from the same mold.

[@davidhill1183]

+MrChaosRegins They, and the other jugs most definitely did come from the very same mould, since all of the (genuine) Ennion vessels at the Met and CMoG exhibitions, when I examined them closely, show flaws from their moulds in identical places. 2 badly damaged blue green jugs were found in the same building in Jerusalem, but it is difficult to ascertain where some of the vessels were found, because their provenance is complicated by their appearing on the antiquities market. I strongly suspect they were made in Italy, and exported to Jerusalem as exclusive, posh tableware for discerning Romans. Archaeological finds are only the very tip of the iceberg in terms of how many jugs Ennion is likely to have made, and the fact that there are at least 7 jugs (or fragments) currently in existence (all but one were in that show) means that there are likely to have been hundreds made from this mould, and in circulation at the time.

[@MrChaosRegins]

David Hill i am going to have to watch this again because i cant exactly remember what it was about. i watch so much cool stuff that most of it gets pushed out on a monthly basis lol. I do remember bits re watching now :P

[@PetronijeKrsmanovic]

bravo !

[@dlwatib]

I would not jump to the conclusion that glassblowing originated in Jerusalem just because that's where archaeologists discovered the earliest known glassblowing tubes. It's very likely that archaeologists will eventually discover even earlier evidence of glassblowing in an area more prolific in the production of glass vessels such as Syria or Alexandria or Rome. What we know of glass in Israel in general is that it is a rare archaeological find in all pre-Roman ages and even well into the Roman age, and always an import, usually from Egypt, Syria, or Mesopotamia. Jerusalem's neighbor to the North, Sidon, for instance was a well-known place for glassmaking, whereas Jerusalem is not. It would be strange if glassblowing was discovered in a place where there was no native skill or tradition in the making of glass vessels, and a place where even glass vessel usage was rare. What archaeologists are probably looking at in the finding of glassblowing tubes in first century BC Israel is a Hellenistic or Roman import, just like all the other glass in Israel up to that time. Jerusalem at the time was a cosmopolitan city with many foreigners, especially Greeks and Romans. It's possible that a Greek or Sidonian artisan with the new glassblowing skill decided to move to Jerusalem and set up shop for some reason, probably to cater to upper-class Romans who could afford and appreciate his wares.

[@kevinhayes6933]

dlwatib I know it goes back to the 3rd dynasty of ur around 2100bc to 2000bc

[@kevinhayes6933]

dlwatib also in the new kingdom of Egypt during amenhotep lll

[@Elyass-rq8wm]

Glassblowing simply originated in the Middle East,Not by Greek or Romans

[@Patrick_B687-3]

What is known about the blow pipes that were used for blowing glass? This part of the equation keeps coming To mind, because without that technology we obviously don't have glass blowing. I wonder if the pipes were created by spiral wrapping straps around a mandrel?

[@corningmuseumofglass]

Little is know about the blow pipes that were used in the beginnings of glassblowing. Some sort of metal pipe was used, but how it was made is unknown. Examples of iron pipes exist dating to about 150 AD, but nothing for the century or more of glassblowing that precedes it. Some suggest metal weren't used, but we respectfully disagree that items such as the Portland Vase could have been made without them.

[@RealHogweed]

great lecture, i thoroughly enjoyed it. i'm going to try to buy "5000 thousand years of glass", i hope it's available on amazon.it :)

[@charlieharper4975]

I do wish he would give a lecture on how to spot a fake. When it comes to Greco-Roman artifacts fakes are as abundant as the real.

[@JoseSantisteban-m5q]

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[@george1la]

Amazing. I want to learn more from him and his friends who are reproducing and proving what happened.

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